Unhonoured and unfriended he shall die,

Withered and mummied with the hot dry plague.

Such oracle divine behoves me trust

With single faith, or, be I faithless, still

The vengeance must be done. All things concur

To point my purpose; the divine command

My sore heart-grief for a loved father’s death,

The press of want, the spoiling of my goods,

The shame to see these noble citizens,

Proud Troy’s destroyers, basely bent beneath